Device for making cigarettes.



No. 678,1"). Patented July 9, 190i.

H. u. SPELMAN. DEVICE FOR MAKING GIGABETTES.

(Application filed 1m. 25,1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

HENRY H. SPELMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE B. RUDDELL, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGARETTES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 678,110, dated July 9, 1901. Application filed March 23, 1901 Serial No. 52,625. (No model.)

T0 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. SPELMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Making Cigarettes; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device made according to my invention, showing one position of its parts. Fig. 2 is alike view of the same, showing another position of its parts. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, on an exaggerated scale, taken in the line w w of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a like View, also on an exaggerated scale, taken in the line y y of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the manual operations of making cigarettes, so that users of such articles may provide their own cigarettes from the usual or any suitable materials, thereby enabling individual tastes and preferences to be conveniently and economically met.

My inventioncomprises certain novel combinations of parts which provide a simple, durable, and easily-manipulated apparatus whereby the results above indicated are effectually secured.

A is a shell, preferably of sheet metal, composed of two oppositely arranged se1nicylindric wings a, which at adjacent longitudinal edges are hinged together, as shown at b in Figs. 2, 3, and 4., so that when the wings are brought one over upon the other, as in Figs. 1 and 3, they together form a cylindric tube, and, further, so that when the wings a are swung apart, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, access is afforded to the interior of the sheli.

One endof one of the wings a is provided with a disk 0, which when the wings are folded together to tubular or cylindric form, as described, closes one end of said cylinder, as Q shown more clearly in Fig. 1, the opposite end of the said cylinder being open. In the disk 0 is a hole 0, through which is passed a rod B, the purpose of which herein presently appears. The free edge a of one of the wings a is rabbeted, so that a shoulder or longitudinal stop 0t is provided thereto parallel with the outer or free edge of the said wing. This shoulder a is so arranged and proportioned that when the wings are closed or folded to the above mentioned cylindric form the outer or free edge portionb' of the other wing at laps over the edge portion of the other or shouldered wing, with its edge abutting against the shoulder a which latter operates as a stop to prevent the one wing from lapping too far over the other wing when the wings are closed to cylindrio form, as just herein set forth.

The hinge b, which connects the two semicylindric wings a, as in Fig. 2,is composed of tubular ears 6 f, provided to the inner edges of the two wings, the tubular ears 6 of one wing alternating with those 6 of the other wing, the whole being united by a pivot-stem g, passed longitudinally through them, as shown in Fig. 4. The hinge thus formed provides an internal rounded longitudinal rib,

itself. The rod B has at one end a plunger or piston g. This piston g is so proportioned as to move longitudinally within the shell when the latter is in its cylindric or closed condition and is notched in its periphery, as shown at n in Fig. 3. When the piston is pushed longitudinally Within the closed shell,

as shown by the representation of the rib b the internal rib provided by the hinge b, as

just hereinbefore explained, passes in the notch 01 of the piston and serves as a guide to the latter, preventing any axial movement thereof, and thereby obviating any tendency to wabbling of the piston in its operation,herein presently explained. Upon the outer end of the rod B may be provided a knob g to facilitate the manipulation of the piston in its operation, presently herein set forth.

In the use and operationof the invention the shell is opened and the piston withdrawn to or near the head 0 of the shell. The requisite portion of tobaccoor other filling for the cigarette to be made is placed in one of the wings a, preferably in thatwhich has the head 0, the filling being duly distributed more or less along the length thereof. This done the wings are closed together, thereby inclosing the filling within the just-formed cylinder. The wrapper of paper or other usual material for the cigarette is then wrapped around the shell, and its outer flap being moistened in any suitable manner is caused to adhere to the adjacent surface of the wrapper. The greater length or portion of the shell is then withdrawn from the wrapper, leaving only a sufficient portion of the shell within the wrapper to permit an end portion of the wrapper and shell to be grasped together by the finger and thumb of the operator. The rod B is then pushed inward and forces the filling or contents of the shell into that portion of the wrapper which has been made vacant by the withdrawal of the shell.

When this is accomplished, the wrapper is wholly withdrawn from the end of the shell and forms, with its contents, the completed cigarette. As the filling is forced into the wrapper under some degree of pressure, the filling, when the cigarette is taken from the shell, expands somewhat by reason of its own elasticity, and thereby brings the wrapper to a neat cylindrical shape which is symmetrical and pleasing to the eye.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is-- 1. The combination with a shell composed of two longitudinal semicylindric wings united by a longitudinal internal hinge, one of which said wings has at one end a head with an opening therein, of a rod passed through the opening in the head and a piston on the said rod arranged to traverse the length of the shell, whereby a practically unbroken cylindric contour is secured to the shell when closed, as described.

2. The combination with a shell composed of two longitudinal semicylindric wings one of which has at one end a head having an opening therein and a longitudinal hinge j uniting said wings at adjacent edges thereof and forming a longitudinal ribwithin the shell, of a rod passed through the opening in the head and a piston on the inner end of the rod and having a notch or recess into which the rib extends during the movement of the Y piston within the shell, as described.

3. The combination with a shell composed ,of two longitudinal semicylindric Wings HENRY H. SPELMAN,

W'itnesses:

J AMES A. WHITNEY, AMAZIAH WHITNEY. 

